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17 de nov. de 2017 · Loving v. Virginia was a Supreme Court case that struck down state laws banning interracial marriage in the United States. The plaintiffs in the case were Richard and Mildred Loving, a white...
22 de may. de 2024 · Loving v. Virginia, legal case, decided on June 12, 1967, in which the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously (9–0) struck down state antimiscegenation statutes in Virginia as unconstitutional under the equal protection and due process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court which ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Oyez.org is a multimedia judicial archive of the Supreme Court of the United States. In this webpage, you can find the details of the landmark case Loving v. Virginia, which struck down the laws banning interracial marriage in 1967. Learn about the background, the arguments, the opinions, and the impact of this historic decision.
7 de feb. de 2023 · Loving v. Virginia is a landmark case, both in the history of race relations in the United States and in the ongoing political and cultural dispute over the proper definition of marriage. Contributor: Phyl Newbeck. Facts of the Case. The appellants in Loving v. Virginia were Richard Perry Loving and his wife, Mildred Delores Jeter Loving.
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. AP Images. On June 12, 1967, the United States Supreme Court struck down a law in the state of Virginia prohibiting interracial marriage. The case arose when two Virginians, Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving, got married in June 1958.
Loving v. Virginia: A unanimous Court struck down state laws banning marriage between individuals of different races, holding that these anti-miscegenation statutes violated both the Due Process and the Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.
